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How long should you practice one thing each day? I hear people saying anything from few mins to a few hours so I'm interested to know your idea on this.

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Hours is pointless - it's impossible to actually focus on a given task that long. The key part of any practice is that it needs to be 100% focused. That's hard. Not doing it and watching TV, or thinking about what you're going to make for dinner, or how much work you have to do tomorrow. You can do that, but the results will be limited. 10 minutes of focused practice is better than an hour or absent minded repetition.
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What do you advise to do to get a good level on guitar sight reading ,expecially for a jazz guitarist?

Nice to see some questions still coming in here!
The answer is obvious - it's just practice. The secret is to not stop, when you make a mistake, don't stop and fix it because that's not how music works, the rest of the band won't stop. That's why I recommend having a reading partner - someone to practice with.
Get the William leavitt books and read daily - the more you do it, the better you'll get, you just need to take it seriously. Outside of that, Bach violin pieces and the inventions are great too.
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Thanks for the answer, Mr. Clay. I always use transcribe to sort things out. I was wondering if there was some program that will allow you to play what to want to transcribe along with the guitar pro file in work. If not, I might try and develop something like that. LOL. Cheers, man.

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Oh dude - if you can develop that - that'd be cool.
In all honesty though, I never hit play in guitar pro, if it's not right, I don't write it down. I can read my transcriptions and play them - relying on guitar pro's terrible midi interpretation is a pain!
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Hello, Mr. Levi. I've been trying to better my transcription skills and I was wondering if you have some tips. My main problem is losing where I am in a specific bar or where it starts. Also is there a way to play the song you're transcribing along with guitar pro so it's easier to follow? Thank u

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You absolutely have to be using a program like transcribe to keep track of where you are and what you're doing
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Have you ever read " Effortless Mastery " by Kenny Werner? It's a great material about music psychology and building overall confidence about music.

I have not - but have meant to!
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I 've been trying mastering the caged system for a couple of months. It works really great for improvise (in fact i improved a lot) with major escale (modes and so) but i found difficult to do it with melodic minor harmony. Do you have any tips? Cheers and thanks in advance

I only get 45 seconds to upload on mobile :(
Essentially though it's all intervals and that's WHERE the caged system comes alive - melodic minor is easy to play because as part of the major scale and modes you've learned all 12 intervals.
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Hey I was wondering, if 10-15 mins is the amount of time you would suggest for one sitting, how much time do you think would be an optimal amount for one day? I will practice for 2 hours all up (Breaking it up into different parts every 10 or so mins) and then leave it for the rest of the day.

No longer than 15 mins per subject - you just can't focus that long - you may feel you are but you're not at your optimum after that
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What framerate are the Lick Library videos shot at?

I would assume 24 as we're in the UK, but don't quote me on that

Can you expand a bit more on the last question about practice? Do you mean 10 mins and then put down the guitar for the rest of the day or 10 mins of one thing then a break then another 10 min of something else?

Good question (again!)
Yes, I might have been a little vague there!
The goal is focused practice. Now my argument is that we can't do that for a given subject for much longer that 10 or 15 minutes without drifting off.
The subject can vary though, and that's the beauty of it. If you have 2 hours of practice time set aside, it's totally possible to do this -
Dexterity exercises/warm up (10 mins)
Dom7 arpeggios in all 5 positions (10 minutes)
Ear training 7 and 9 chords (10 mins)
Alternate Picking Drills (10 mins)
m7b5 chord practice (10 mins)
Sight Reading (10 mins)
Repeat
This means that you're not working one area for too long - you're working the ears, then the fingers, then the eyes etc, so when you repeat you're fresh on the subject.
Obviously you substitute in what you need
That make sense?

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